Signals from the Periphery brings together urgent developments in graphic design with a focus on works that surpass traditional forms and media of graphic design. All contributions in the book are authored by graphic designers or people whose practice is in one way or another linked to the discipline. Some of the topics covered in the book include education, self-organization, work, technology, storytelling and much more.
The book is accompanied by the eighth issue of Dark and Stormy, a fanzine about writer’s block, black holes and surprising comebacks by Rustan Söderling and Bart de Baets, specially produced on the occasion of the exhibition Signals from the Periphery.
The book is published on the occasion the exhibition Signals from the Periphery that took place in Tallinn this summer.

About

Signals from the Periphery is an international graphic design event, taking place from July 1 to August 13, 2017 at the Tallinn Art Hall and its surrounding venues. The project brings together urgent developments in graphic design with a focus on practices that extend the field. These practices often expand into other cultural fields, while creating new hybrid forms, as well as seeking out new economic models to sustain themselves. Signals from the Periphery encompasses an exhibition at the Tallinn Art Hall, a satellite exhibition at the EAA gallery, an extensive public programme and a book that will be published to accompany the project.

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Programme

Signals from the Periphery public programme takes place between July 10 and July 16 at the Tallinn Art Hall. The programme is comprised of workshops, lectures, presentations, performances, music, book launches, film screenings, a reading group and much more. More info and a full schedule will be announced soon!

July 10 – July 13: Workshops
July 14 – July 16: Lectures, presentations and performances

From 14th to 16th July Tallinn Art Hall will host the public programme of the exhibition „Signals from the Periphery“ which includes lectures, performances, film screenings and a pop-up bar.

Entrance with the exhibition ticket – 3€ / 5€. It is also possible to purchase an 8€ ticket that gives access to the Art Hall during the whole weekend.

NB: there might be changes in the program, we will update it accordingly!

Workshops

Signals from the Periphery follows up on several themes that depart from the Asterisk Summer School. Thus, the public programme accompanying the exhibition also includes two workshops led by designers and artists that are taking part in the exhibition: the makers behind the fanzine Dark & Stormy (Bart de Baets and Rustan Söderling) and the minds that run the tapestry agency Kulenturato (David Külen and Nora Turato).

Duration: 10.07 – 13.07.2017 (2 x 2 days)

Location: Tallinn Art Hall

Participants: 28

Language: English

The participation fee is €100. This amount includes participating in both workshops and free entrance to the lecture programme taking place 14–16.07 at the Tallinn Art Hall.

Participation in the workshops takes place on a first-come, first-served basis, so act fast!

To participate you are kindly asked to fill in the form below. You are required to add a PDF with an overview of your work (max 5 pages). The summer school is open to people from a variety of disciplines, therefore work of any character and form may be submitted.

Name your file your_name_works.pdf

Maximum size for the PDF is 10 MB. Please be patient with the uploads.

Application deadline is July 5, 2017.

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Workshop 1: DARK & STORMY

After Geography

For the launch of each new issue of Dark and Stormy, Rustan and Bart have developed ways to present their fanzine. So far, these presentations have become alternative contributions that take the shape of posters, installations and video pieces. Occasionally, the two end up favouring these pieces over the issue they present that very evening. In a playful workshop, the makers of Dark and Stormy would like to explore the blurred lines of these additional pieces and work with the subject of presentation when there’s nothing really to present. And to perhaps even call it a potential ninth issue.

Bart de Baets (1979, Knokke, Belgium) is a graphic designer based in Amsterdam. Since his graduation from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie’s graphic design department, he has been working on a variety of self-initiated and commissioned projects. Bart’s commissioned work includes a variety of clients: collaborations with artists such as Melanie Bonajo, James Beckett and Adelita Husni-Bey; art institutions as The New Institute (Rotterdam), AFK, De Appel, W139, Paradiso; cultural events, lecture series, film programs like The Weight of Colour, A New Divide?; brand design for Puma, Ace & Tate.

Workshop 2: KULENTURATO

Grandma was just making a sweater. Or was she?

DURING WORLD WAR I, A grandmother in Belgium knitted at her window, watching the passing trains. As one train chugged by, she made a bumpy stitch in the fabric with her two needles. Another passed, and she dropped a stitch from the fabric, making an intentional hole. Later, she would risk her life by handing the fabric to a soldier—a fellow spy in the Belgian resistance, working to defeat the occupying German force.

David Kulen (1986, The Netherlands) studied Graphic Design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam following his studies in Rotterdam. He now heads Enbiun as a creative director. Enbiun is an agency for interior and graphic design. His clients include the largest bank of the Netherlands, PwC and the Dutch State. David has worked together with Nora Turato on Kazachenko’s apartment, a gallery in Oslo. Here the pair created a series of densely designed posters to accompany its shows. This collaboration led to the founding in 2016 of tapestry studio Kulenturato.

Nora Turato (1991, Zagreb, Croatia) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam and at Werkplaats Typografie Arnhem. Currently Nora Turato is resident at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam. In early 2017 she had a series of performances at Kunstwerke Berlin and her first institutional solo exhibition at NAK Aachen in Germany. Nora often collaborates with David Kulen as a graphic designer and this very collaboration led to the founding in 2016 of tapestry studio Kulenturato.

Tallinn Art Hall

The Tallinn Art Hall Foundation is a contemporary art institution established in 1934 with an exhibition programme in three galleries on the central square of Tallinn – the Tallinn Art Hall, the Art Hall Gallery and the nearby City Gallery.

Tallinn Art Hall addresses the most pressing issues in contemporary art and design, provides a fascinating programme for contemporary audiences and helps creatives bring forth new exhibitions and works. The Tallinn Art Hall holds 20 to 24 exhibitions a year, making the space one of the largest and most important art and design venues in Estonia.

Discount ticket: 3 €
Students, university students, Estonian pensioners, disabled people (and their companions), members of the armed forces in uniform, groups (10 or more), members of the Estonian Artists’ Association, members of the Estonian Art Teachers’ Association)

Family ticket 8 €
Up to 2 adults and their children aged 18 years or under

Signals from the Periphery is realised with the kind support of Creative Industries Fund NL, Estonian Cultural Endowment, the Estonian Academy of the Arts, Photography department of the EAA, Tallinna Reaalkool, CNC Stuudio, Print24, HiFiClassic, De Appel and Pieter Verbeke.